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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Our choices for this month are Midnight Riot by Ben
Aaronovitch and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl and Dark
Places, both of which are already on the Nooks. They have been added to the
Nook libraries for your reading enjoyment!

Midnight
Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

(Urban
Fantasy / Mystery / Crime)

Probationary Constable Peter Grant
dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his
superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest
threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath
of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness
who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with the lingering dead
brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale,
who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the
uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter
is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and
long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.

Sharp
Objects by Gillian Flynn

(Mystery /
Thriller / Crime)

WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across
her heart

Words are like a road map to reporter
Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital,
Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works
brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen
girls.

NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her
leg

Since she left town eight years ago,
Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the
half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip
on the town. Now, installed again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is
haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut
from her memory.

HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her
ankle

As Camille works to uncover the truth
about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young
victims—a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to
unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by
her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before
if she wants to survive this homecoming.